Pashley, Robert: Travels in Crete (Band 1) (Cambridge und London, 1837)

and other chieftains at grabusa.

Three warriors each his wand'ring steps
O'er hapless Crete now wends,

If cousins, or e'en brothers, they
Had not been firmer friends.

As if one mother all had borne,
And nourished at her breast,

Thus 'twas that each his warmest love
Did on the others rest.

One was ycleped Xepapas,

Another Buzo-Mark,
The third was Captain Panaghes,

Once cast in dungeon dark.

They all decreed, Grabusa's rock
That from the foe they'd wrest;

Nor, in Grabusa, would permit
One Musulman to rest.

And Buzo-Marko 'twas, who first

Did on the rampart stand,
And seven soldiers there did he

Cut down with his good brand.

<f Leap up, leap up, my warriors bold,

"And on the Turks with speed
"We'll rush, for hence I don't retreat

" If death be not my meed."

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First Buzo-Marko on the ground

Was stretched by deadly blow;
And soon, by numbers overcome,

The Captains all lay low.